The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-07

AASinu IN udhy OCCOIuiuB more unpOp-
ular throughout Great Britain. It can
not well be otherwise, unless Englishmen
are willing to admit that they have no
other recourse than to keep the Irish race
down by hireling battalions. If that pro-
cess is much longer continued, it must
eventually harden Irishmen into deeper-
ate revolutionists.
DIR. PHILIP SoHAFF, in an article on
Calvin and Servetus, In the Observer,
thus speaks of one Of the revenges of his
tory: "The burning of the body of Ser
vetus did not destroy his soul. His blood
was the fruitful seed of the doctrine of
liberation and the Unitarian heresy, which
assumed an organized form in the Socin-
ian sect, afterwards spread in many ortho-
dox churches, including Geneva"
The Rev. DIR. LoRIMER, of the First
Baptist church, in this city, created some
thing of sensation at a recent meeting
OF evangelists and temperance workers
by announcing that he believed himself
to be the best natured man in the world,
having worked whole week with re-
vivalist without having row. DIR. LoR-
INFER generally frees his mind no matter
who is hit.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR says that che
who talks of missions as a failure uses
the language Of ignorant error as an ex-
cuse for unchr1stiau slotb." In nine
cases out of ten the men who speak OF
the work of missions as unproductive,
know next to nothing of what has been
done. Missions have been one of the
great factors in the worlds advancement
toward true civilization.
On the whole, observes the Current,
FRANCIS MURPHY, the apostle of temper
ance, is one of the most level-headed Of.
men. 1t would, perhaps, be difficult to
endorse all his utterances. Some reason
able margin must always be left for en-
thusiasts, and MR. MURPHY is an enthu-
siast of the first order. But when he
says, Be kind to sinr ers, but don't make
heroes of them," he deserves to be ap-
plauded to the very echo.
IT is quite possible" says the Guard
ian. of London, to overdo the mere
quantity Of flowers in church. To see
an altar overloaded with meaningless
masses of flowers, to hear sermon de-
livered from amidst a sort of he'd of
leaves, to have ones eyes distracted by
novel and homogeneous lines of ornamen-
tation, these experiences, so far from
stimulating devotion, repress it and pro-
duce either amusement or irritation"
This suggestion will keep until next
Easter, or perhaps it will be in due force
for Children's Sunday.
TAKING for its text the statement that
"Baptists have no creed but the Bible"
the Waterman says that Baptists are not
required to subscribe to articles of belief,
but candidates for baptism are some-
times asked whether they object to any
thing in them. 1t is assumed that the
members are disciples, learners, not
teachers. No inquisition is made to fer
ret out heresies. But if member were
openly to dispute and oppose any part OF
our common faith, he would find that
course, il persisted in, incompatible with
continued membership"
SAYS the AdUdnce: "To yield the point
demanded, in the present circumstances
and send out men to Japan and China and
India and else where who hold the doctrine
of future probation, is simply to put
our churches under the lead Of a faith
and a policy which will lead them straight
toward Universalism. They may not get
there at once; but that ia where they will
land" To this our Banner responds:
Gall right; let them come. That is just
where COP intended all his children
should land at last, and we are glad to
see them marching in that direction"
IT is said that JOSEPH PULITZER never
allows the word "Jew" or "Hebrew" to oc-
cur in the World, and correspondent of
the Sun has written to that paper approx
ing OF PULITzER's course and Directing to
criticism of it, to which the Sun makes
this reply: "For our own part, we do not
understand that there is anything INSULT
ing in saying that a man is a Jew, if it be
true, any more than in saying that he is
Protestant, or Catholic, German or
an italian. II we look into the records
of history for the greatest individuals
who have served humanity by raising
thought, knowledge, charity and hope to
higher and higher levels, those men will
In many instances be found to be Jews.
A CURIOUS illustration of the extent to
which human perversity can go is thus
referred to by the Independent. "Now
and then we have a man who will not do
right because it is popular to do right,
and he in so afraid of being popular that
he would rather do wrong. PROF. DE
MORGAN, the famous English mathema.
tician, was not suspected during his life
OF having any religious faith, and his
sharp irony was directed against the
churches. But his will began with
committal of his soul to JESUS CHRIST 'of
whom l believe in my heart that COP
has raised him from the dead, and whom
l have not confessed with my mouth, in
the sense ordinarily attached to these
words, because in my time such confess
sion has been the only way up in the